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3.00 Credits
Staff. Prerequisite(s): Music 070. Fulfills the requirements of the Music Major. This course will introduce music majors and minors to the history of western music. Focusing on the development and transformation of musical styles from medieval plainchant through the works of J.S. Bach, the course will also explore the cultural and social resonances of the repertories in question.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Prerequisite(s): Music 070. Fulfills the requirements of the Music Major. The continuation of Music 130, focusing on the development and transformation of musical styles from the classical period through the present.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Ramsey. Prerequisite(s): Music 070. Fulfills the requirements of the Music Major. This course surveys American musical life from the colonial period to the present. Beginning with the music of Native Americans, the European legacy, and the African Diaspora, the first part of the course treats the social and political milieu that shaped America's musical landscape. Working from this foundation, the course moves to 19th-century figures in musical composition, education, performance, and promotion. The establishment of a popular sphere, the development of concert music, and the subsequent cultural hierarchies that resulted from each realm form important threads of investigation. The course concludes with 20th-century topics, including the appearance of jazz, the trajectory of western art music in the United States, and the eventual dominance of American popular music.
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3.00 Credits
Ramsey, Primosch. Prerequisite(s): Music 070. This introductory "hands-on" course surveys and applies various theoretical approaches to playing specific idioms of jazz and related musical styles. Our approach will be eclectic, including the study of written scores, recordings, transcriptions, live performances, and selected theoretical treatises.
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3.00 Credits
Ramsey. This course explores aspects of the origins, style development, aesthetic philosophies, historiography, and contemporary conventions of African-American musical traditions. Topics covered include: the music of West and Central Africa, the music of colonial America, 19th century church and dance music, minstrelsy, music of the Harlem Renaissance, jazz, blues, gospel, hip-hop, and film music. Special attention is given to the ways in which black music generates "meaning" and to how the social energy circulating within black music articulates myriad issues about American identity at specific historical moments.
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3.00 Credits
Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Muller, Rommen. Fulfills the requirements of the Music Major. This course introduces students to the field of ethnomusicology through a series of case studies that explore a range of traditional, popular, and art musics from around the world. The course takes as a point of departure several works of musical ethnography, musical fiction, and musical autobiography and, through in-depth reading of these texts, close listening to assigned sound recordings, and in- class case studies, generates a context within which to think and write about music.
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3.00 Credits
Rommen. This course focuses on the musical genres and styles (both traditional and popular) that have grown up around the accordion in the New World. We will begin our explorations in Nova Scotia and move toward the Midwest, travelling though the polka belt. From there, our investigation turns toward Louisiana and Texas--toward zydeco, Cajun, and Tex-Mex music. We will then work our way through Central and South America, considering norteno, cumbia, vallenato, tango, chamame, and forro. Our journey will include in the Caribbean, where we will spend some time thinking about merengue and rake-n-scrape music. Throughout the semester, the musical case studies will be matched by readings and films that afford ample opportunity to think about the ways that music is bound up in ethnicity, identity, and class. We will also have occasion to think about the accordion as a multiply meaningful instrument that continues to be incorporated into debates over cultural politics and mobilized as part of strategies of representation through the New World.
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3.00 Credits
Rommen. This survey course considers Latin American musics within a broad cultural and historical framework. Latin American musical practices are explored by illustrating the many ways that aesthetics, ritual, communication, religion, and social structure are embodied in and contested through performance. These initial inquiries open onto an investigation of a range of theoretical concepts that become particularly pertinent in Latin American contexts--concepts such as post-colonialism, migration, ethnicity, and globalization. Throughout the course, we will listen to many different styles and repertories of music and then work to understand them not only in relation to the readings that frame our discussions but also in relation to our own, North American contexts of music consumption and production.
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3.00 Credits
Miner. North Indian classical music is performed in a format shared by stringed, bowed and wind instruments. intermediate North Indeian Instrumental performance is open to students who play a Western or Indian instrument with at least an intermediate degree of proficiency and to those who have completed Beginning Sitar. The course will cover North Indian methods of composition, rhythm and improvisation and focus on two or three performance pieces. A group performance will be given at the end of the semester.
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3.00 Credits
Miner. Hindustani and Karnatak music are among the great classical music systems of the world. Developed in temple, shrine, court, and concert stage environments in North and South India, they have a strong contemporary following in urban South Asia and a significant international presence. This course is an introduction to theory, structures, instruments, and aesthetics. We will work with primary and secondary texts, recordings, videos, and live performances. Topics will cover selected aspects of raga, tala, composition, improvisation and social contexts. The course aims to give students analytical and listening skills with which to approach and appreciate India's classical music. No prior music training is required.
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